Wall

Name: Wall
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SKU: 9781922571618
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By Jen Craig

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Wall by Jen Craig delves into the intricate complexities of personal and familial relationships through an exploration of memory and identity. Set against the backdrop of a constantly evolving urban environment, the narrative intricately weaves together strands of past and present, revealing the protagonist's inner world and the hidden depths of their interactions. The story’s reflective tone offers a profound examination of how one's history shapes their understanding of self and others.
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If you're drawn to introspective narratives that explore the inner workings of characters, you might enjoy this book. It delves into themes of memory, identity, and the complexity of human relationships, offering a deep and contemplative reading experience. The author's unique voice brings an intense focus on the subtleties of ordinary life, which may resonate with fans of literary fiction.

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Shortlisted, Miles Franklin Literary Award 2024

A woman returns to Australia to clear out her father's house, with an eye to transforming the contents into an art installation in the tradition of the revered Chinese artist, Song Dong. What she hasn't reckoned with is the tangle of jealousies, resentments, and familial complications that she had thought, in leaving the country, she had put behind her—a tangle that ensnares her before she even arrives.

Wall is an extraordinarily compacted work of rich complexity, humour, and sadness. Its narrator's steadfast desire to explain herself, to clarify the seemingly unclarifiable, is as close to mirroring the roiling momentum of real consciousness that I've read in a modern novel. When I read Jen Craig I find it impossible to imagine a better way to capture the mysterious workings of the mind—its inadvertent epiphanies, its loose but determined associations, its cruelly recurring entrapments—without writing just like her. But no one else could. — Shaun Prescott

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781922571618

Publisher: Puncher and Wattmann

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 01 April 2023

Country: Australia

Imprint: Puncher and Wattmann

Illustration: Illustrations

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Width: 148.0mm

Height: 210.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 220

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About the Author

Jen Craig is the author of the libretto A Dictionary of Maladies, and the novels Since the Accident and Panthers and the Museum of Fire, which was longlisted for the 2016 Stella Prize and since translated into Spanish. Her short stories, essays and reviews have appeared in literary journals on both sides of the Pacific Ocean. She now lives on Darug and Gundungurra lands in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales.

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